The Resource Girls like us, Gail Giles
Girls like us, Gail Giles
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- Summary
- Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and discover unexpected things they have in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 210 pages
- Isbn
- 9780763662677
- Label
- Girls like us
- Title
- Girls like us
- Statement of responsibility
- Gail Giles
- Subject
-
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueFoster children
- trueFriendship
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- trueHigh schools
- trueLife change events
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueMultiracial teenage girls
- trueOverweight teenage girls
- People with mental disabilities -- Fiction
- People with mental disabilities -- Juvenile fiction
- trueRape
- Rape -- Fiction
- Rape -- Juvenile fiction
- trueRealistic fiction
- Roommates -- Fiction
- Roommates -- Juvenile fiction
- trueSupermarkets
- trueSchools
- trueYoung women
- Young adult fiction
- trueViolence against young women
- trueViolence against children
- trueChildren with developmental disabilities -- Education
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and discover unexpected things they have in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma
- Summary
- Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and discover unexpected things they have in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma
- Award
-
- Amelia Bloomer List, 2015
- Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2014
- Schneider Family Book Award for Teens, 2015.
- YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2015.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10315611
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Giles, Gail
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- HL 570
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- LC call number
- PZ7.G3923
- LC item number
- Gi 2014
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 570
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
-
- 8
- 12
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- People with mental disabilities
- Roommates
- Rape
- Friendship
- People with mental disabilities
- Roommates
- Rape
- Friendship
- Target audience
- adolescent
- Label
- Girls like us, Gail Giles
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20244263
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 210 pages
- Isbn
- 9780763662677
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn857879327
- (OCoLC)857879327
- Label
- Girls like us, Gail Giles
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20244263
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 210 pages
- Isbn
- 9780763662677
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn857879327
- (OCoLC)857879327
Subject
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueFoster children
- trueFriendship
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- trueHigh schools
- trueLife change events
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueMultiracial teenage girls
- trueOverweight teenage girls
- People with mental disabilities -- Fiction
- People with mental disabilities -- Juvenile fiction
- trueRape
- Rape -- Fiction
- Rape -- Juvenile fiction
- trueRealistic fiction
- Roommates -- Fiction
- Roommates -- Juvenile fiction
- trueSupermarkets
- trueSchools
- trueYoung women
- Young adult fiction
- trueViolence against young women
- trueViolence against children
- trueChildren with developmental disabilities -- Education
Genre
- trueRealistic fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueMultiple perspectives
Included in
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Books for Youth - Older Readers Category: 2014
- trueAmelia Bloomer Lists - Young Adult Fiction: 2015
- trueSchneider Family Book Awards: Teens (ages 13-18)
- trueThe Disability Experience (Teens)
- trueYALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults: 2015
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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